Yes you are right, User can destroy the system if he gets full permission on administrative commands. But i just want to know whthere user can execute these administrative commands or not, I think there must be a way to execute administrative commands without typing root password from user. Thanking you Siva
On 2/13/07, Loyal Barber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected] <LINUX_Newbies%40yahoogroups.com>, > "siva sankar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Thank you verymuch, This is working. > > > > But, one more doubt.Can a user run commands like fdisk, mount..? > > <snip> > ? I want, particular user should run some commands like fdisk,mount > without > > using "su" and root password. Please clarify me. > > > > Siva > > On 2/13/07, Chad Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > siva sankar wrote: > > > > I configured NIS in our office.we have 20 users.Some of the > users have > > > pen-drive.But they can't mount their pen-drives in their local > machines, > > > > > > > > <snip> > > > > > > Yes, and it doesn't involve NIS at all. > > > > > > You need to make sure that usb-storage is compiled as a module (at > least > > > that's what it's called in the 2.6 kernel series) or compiled into the > > > kernel. > > > > > > Make sure you have USB hotplugging running. Since you didn't tell us > > > what your distro is, I can't say much more than this. > > > > > > <snip> > > > > > > Chad Martin > > > > > You have already given the "mount" command for pen drives by what Chad > suggested. Please tell me you don't really want to give the "fdisk" > command to any user. If a user has this command, they might as well > be root as they can destroy the system anyway. Only system admins > should have access to fdisk and other partitioning utilities. > > Loyal > > > -- Siva BE RHCE [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
